prof. dr. sc. Roberta Petlevski

Profile

Roberta Petlevski, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Haematology. She teaches graduate courses General Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Biochemistry of Organs and Organ systems 2 and Clinical Biochemistry with Hematology. Her scientific interests include biochemical and molecular testing of medicinal plants and active plant constituents (phytopharmaceuticals) in diabetes mellitus with the aim of discovering new potential antidiabetic drugs and their possible toxic effect.

Projects:

2014 Associate on project funded by the University of Zagreb: Secondary metabolites of Croatian plant species and their biological effects

2013 Associate on project funded by the University of Zagreb: Phytochemical, biological and molecular investigation Globularia species

2007-2013 principal investigator of the project funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia: Antioxidant and prooxidant effects of medicinal plants on hepatocytes (project ID: 006-0061246-1251)

2002 – 2006 Associate on project funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia: Mechanisms of cellular defense in chronic diseases (project ID: 000-663-1)

1996 – 2001 Associate on project funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia: Biochemical markers of cellular damage (project ID: 00-63-1)